Week 5; Friday; Milla

[alcobrawlic]

[ It's... not exactly the happiest day she's experienced in a pretty shitty week, but as much as Sara wants to keep to herself and drown in her thoughts until they settle down and stop raging around like a hurricane-- she doesn't. Because another part of her doesn't want to be completely alone, as selfish as that feels... and she also has people she needs to check up on.

So here she is, having wandered down over by the water hole, and there she sees her.

There's one. ]

Milla!

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[thatsthespirit]

No one deserves to be here. Of that I am certain.

[a frustrated noise]

When I first arrived here, I told the Sheriff I intended to kill his employers to prevent them from running a game like this ever again. I'd like to follow through with that promise, but. . .

[how can she when she's still trying to figure out how to stop all this murder and madness?]

[alcobrawlic]

But right now, we've got the immediate problem on our hands.

[ People and killing and killing people and people killing. ]

[thatsthespirit]

[TOO MUCH MURDER]

. . . the four killers from last night.

I imagine two of them were Bandits. [as they usually were] But it's concerning to know we have at least one person here who is content to kill multiple times without the aid of a role.

[alcobrawlic]

Honestly, that just sort of reminds me of home. It takes all types.

[ Except keeping those types away from the innocent was easier back home. ]

[thatsthespirit]

[ah. . . Milla perks up a bit in concern at that]

Home. . .? Does this sort of thing happen frequently where you come from?

[alcobrawlic]

Not frequently... sort of. Usually it's not a bunch of people killing for fun, but they will slaughter entire towns for the money.

[thatsthespirit]

Greed isn't a much better motivator than boredom.

[honestly]

I hope there are people who have dedicated themselves to protecting the towns from these criminals.

[alcobrawlic]

Not all of the civilians can fight, but that's what bracers will do, if the provincial armies don't act, or the Railway Military Police. Bracers are a neutral party that only acts to protect civilians or help maintain the peace.

[thatsthespirit]

Oh! I see. That's good of them, then.

Are you a Bracer, Sara?

[alcobrawlic]

I used to be, until I became an instructor. [ The abridged version. ]

But I'm actually going back to it, whenever I get out of here. Our world's... never really stopped needing them.

[thatsthespirit]

Is there a reason you couldn't do both?

[the jobs don't seem mutually exclusive to Milla]

[alcobrawlic]

Actually, yeah. Bracers travel the country, sometimes the continent, going where they're needed-- instructors tend to stay put, for the most part, where they teach.

[thatsthespirit]

[oh, yeah, that seems fair enough]

I'm sure your students will miss you when you return to your travels. But I'm also sure you'll be an asset in protecting the people from danger.